Georg Zeisler, a farmer, and his wife Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the snow-brig named Maria Sophia under the command of Skipper Johann Bauert.
Johann Georg Sessler, a farmer, and his wife Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 50.
The 1767 census records that Johann Georg Sessler came from the German village of Hölzern in the Württemberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Sessler family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 335.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 121.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #2485.
Brent Mai
Entry from the Oranienbaum passenger list recording the arrival in Russia of Georg Zeisler and his wife Katharina.
Source: Brent Mai.